Lutz Sikorski

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Lutz Sikorski (born January 2, 1950 in Nuremberg ; † January 5, 2011 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German politician from Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and from July 2006 until his death head of the Frankfurt am Main transport department.

education and profession

Sikorski was born in Nuremberg, where the family initially settled after fleeing East Prussia after the Second World War . He then spent his childhood and youth in Frankfurt am Main, where he attended the Helmholtz School . After graduating from high school, he did military service in the German armed forces in 1970 , which he left after two years as a reserve officer . As a reservist, he achieved the rank of captain . From 1973 to 1980 he studied law at the University of Frankfurt am Main . Then he worked in the private sector. For a year he represented a Swabian manufacturer of printing machine accessories in Jordan and Lebanon . From 1987 he was purchasing manager at a chemical company in the Rhine-Main area.

politics

A few months after joining the Greens, Sikorski moved into the city council in 1985, where he became chairman of the transport committee in 1989. On September 23, 1993, he was to become head of the environment in the red-green coalition under Lord Mayor Andreas von Schoeler . However, he did not receive enough votes in the city parliament election because, according to Schoeler, "four pigs in their own ranks" refused. Chamberlain Tom Koenigs had to take over the function of the head of the environment. Sikorski was then parliamentary group leader and in early 1996 also took over the chairmanship of his party in the city council. From July 13, 2006 he headed the traffic department in the black-green coalition under Petra Roth .

Sikorski was chairman of the supervisory board of the local public transport company Frankfurt am Main traffiQ , which is responsible for planning and ordering public transport in Frankfurt. In addition, he was chairman of the supervisory board of Frankfurter Entsorgungs- und Service GmbH and the planning company of the West Regional Tangent . Sikorski was also a member of the supervisory board of Fraport AG and Messe Frankfurt GmbH.

His area of ​​responsibility as the head of the transport department also included the municipal operator of public transport, the Stadtwerke Verkehrsgesellschaft Frankfurt am Main (VGF) and its subsidiaries. Sikorski was also responsible for the local transport infrastructure company Frankfurt am Main, for the affairs of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund , in which the city of Frankfurt is a partner.

Sikorski died on the night of January 5, 2011 after a long illness. He is buried in Frankfurt's main cemetery.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Maier: Cancer - the councilor Lutz Sikorski is dead. In: welt.de . January 6, 2011, accessed December 16, 2014 .
  2. ↑ PARLIS transcript of the 6th meeting of STVV on 23 September 1993
  3. ^ "Own pigs" Spiegel online from June 5, 1995. Fear of wobbles Focus online from April 11, 1994
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  4. ↑ "Not a project, an agreement". In: FAZ.net . April 6, 2006, accessed December 16, 2014 .
  5. ↑ a b Hans Riebsamen: Lutz Sikorski is dead Sensitive leader with a sense of irony . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . January 5, 2011, ISSN  0174-4909 ( online [accessed January 13, 2016]).
  6. ^ Claus-Jürgen Göpfert: Frankfurt: Lutz Sikorski is dead. In: fr-online.de. January 5, 2011, accessed December 16, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Jutta Ochs: In memory of Sikorski: Worked almost to the end of life. In: fr-online.de. January 5, 2011, accessed December 16, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Sikorski, Lutz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen)
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd January 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 2011
Place of death Frankfurt am Main